This book has engaged in some reflection on the dominant ways of thinking that have shaped IPE's research agenda. This chapter seeks to open up some of the potential terrain for alternative modes of knowledge of social change, and a discussion of the utility of the social practice perspective on work and related spheres of life. Ultimately, it argues that the meanings of globalisation and flexibility directly engage with the everyday lives of people. They do so differentially, unevenly and contradictorily, as they simultaneously seek to remove the grounds for politics, while also redrawing the lines of shared experience, solidarity, and identity.

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The digital era has brought about huge transformations in the map itself, which
to date have been largely conceptualised in spatial terms. The emergence of
novel objects, forms, processes and approaches in the digital era has, however,
posed a swathe of new, pressing questions about the temporality of digital maps
and contemporary mapping practices, and in spite of its implicit spatiality,
digital mapping is strongly grounded in time. In this peer-reviewed collection
we bring time back into the map, taking up Doreen Massey's critical concern
for 'ongoing stories' in the world, but asking how mapping continues
to wrestle with the difficulty of enrolling time into these narratives, often
seeking to ‘freeze’ and ‘fix’ the world, in lieu of being able to, in some way,
represent, document or capture dynamic phenomena. This collection examines how
these processes are impacted by digital cartographic technologies that,
arguably, have disrupted our understanding of time as much as they have provided
coherence. The book consists of twelve chapters that address different kinds of
digital mapping practice and analyse these in relation to temporality. Cases
discussed range from locative art projects, OpenStreetMap mapping parties,
sensory mapping, Google Street View, visual mapping, smart city dashboards and
crisis mapping. Authors from different disciplinary positions consider how a
temporal lens might focus attention on different aspects of digital mapping.
This kaleidoscopic approach generates a rich plethora for understanding the
temporal modes of digital mapping. The interdisciplinary background of the
authors allows multiple positions to be developed.

An international political economy of work

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Bringing fresh insights to the contemporary globalization debate, this text reveals the social and political contests that give ‘global’ its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalization as it is expressed in the restructuring of work. The book rejects conventional explanations of globalization as a process that automatically leads to transformations in working lives, or as a project that is strategically designed to bring about lean and flexible forms of production, and advances an understanding of the social practices that constitute global change. Through case studies that span from the labour flexibility debates in Britain and Germany to the strategies and tactics of corporations and workers, it examines how globalization is interpreted and experienced in everyday life and argues that contestation has become a central feature of the practices that enable or confound global restructuring.

Race, class and school choice

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All in the mix: class, race and school choice considers how parents choose
secondary schools for their children and makes an important intervention into
debates on school choice and education. The book examines how parents talk about
race, religion and class – in the process of choosing. It also explores how
parents’ own racialised and classed positions, as well as their experience of
education, can shape the way they approach choosing schools. Based on in-depth
interviews with parents from different classed and racialised backgrounds in
three areas in and around Manchester, the book shows how discussions about
school choice are shaped by the places in which the choices are made. It argues
that careful consideration of choosing schools opens up a moment to explore the
ways in which people imagine themselves, their children and others in social,
relational space.